シャドーイング練習: The pain of chasing your dreams - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Good evening.
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I'm Steve Jobs from Apple Computer.
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We're very glad to be here tonight.
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Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life.
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That's it.
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No big deal.
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Just three stories.
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The first story is about connecting the dots.
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I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.
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It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
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The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me
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and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
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Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
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Throughout the campus, every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed, and I found it fascinating.
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None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
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But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
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If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
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Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards.
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So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever,
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because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart
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even when it leads you off the well-worn path.
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My second story is about love and loss.
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I was lucky.
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I found what I loved to do early in life.
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Was and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20.
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We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.
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And then I got fired.
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What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone.
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I really didn't know what to do for a few months.
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I felt that I'd let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down.
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I'd been rejected, but I was still in love.
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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
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It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life.
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During the next five years I started a company named Next, another company named Pixar, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
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I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
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You've got to find what you love.
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life
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and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
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And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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If you If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
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As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
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My third story is about death.
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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like, If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
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The past 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
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Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, These things just fall away in the face of death.
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Remembering
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that you are going to die is the best way I
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know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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There is no reason not to follow your heart.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
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Everything else is secondary.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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Thank you all very much.

このレッスンについて

このレッスンでは、スティーブ・ジョブズの名演説から英語を学び、シャドーイングによる発音練習を行います。彼のストーリーには、夢を追うことの難しさや、自分の情熱を追求することの重要性が盛り込まれています。これを通して、リスニング力とスピーキング力を高め、より自然な「英語の発音を良くする」方法を学びます。特に、感情やトーンに注目しながら、ジョブズの言葉を追いかけることで、英語スピーキング練習を充実させることができます。

キーボキャブラリー＆フレーズ

  • connect the dots - 点をつなぐ
  • calligraphy - 書道
  • love what you do - 自分の仕事を愛する
  • creative period - 創造的な時期
  • external expectations - 外部の期待
  • trap of thinking - 考える罠
  • beginners again - 再び初心者に戻る
  • last day of my life - 自分の人生の最後の日

練習のヒント

この動画のシャドーイングを行う際は、まずはスピードを落として、各フレーズのイントネーションやリズムに注意を払いましょう。スティーブ・ジョブズの声には独特の感情が込められていますので、影響を受けながら、声のトーンを真似ることが大切です。発音を改善するために、強調したいキーワードに焦点を当て、英語シャドーイングを通じて反復練習をすることをお勧めします。これにより、より自然な英語のスピーキング力が身につきます。また、shadowspeaksを意識し、繰り返し自分の声を録音してみると良いでしょう。その際、英語での感情表現を豊かにするために、重要なフレーズを声に出して練習してください。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。